Welcome to Tales of the Blue & The Gray, a home for the Civil War short stories, novel excerpts, and other various writings by award-winning Amber Quill Press author Trace Edward Zaber!

From Trace...

Walt Whitman wrote: Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

Now, to an author like myself who eats, drinks, breathes, and thinks Civil War history—some have said Im obsessed, and rightly so—Whitmans statement is a challenge. Whether I successfully triumph or miserably fail, however, is anyones guess. But Im trying Walt, believe me, Im trying...

Thanks for stopping in, feel free to read a story about life in the days of the Great American Conflict, and perhaps you will be kind enough to sign my guestbook and let me know what you think. (And, like myself, Im certain good ol Walt would appreciate it.)